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Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

and as often and as efficiently as it had, for instance, during the Eisenhower Administration, because it was pre-empted to LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

active in a little local politics. I was chairman of a special group for citizens for the Eisenhower campaign in 1956. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781

Oral history transcript, Russell B. Long, interview 2 (II), 6/20/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of thing more than Eisenhower did, and that if we were going to do it we ought to go a step beyond and it should be at least a dollar. G: I gather that most senator~ or a lot of them, did not feel that he could win that vote, and there was a bit

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 10 (X), 5/13/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the politics of the Eisenhower Administration was to be friendly to civil rights. So he couldn't very well abandon that administration policy. G: One of the articles, I'm sure there were others, commented on how well organized the southern forces were

Oral history transcript, Harris Melasky, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

forgetful. But I remember that that came after the Allan Shivers fight went up; [Lyndon] was in control up there at the convention. He [Stevenson] later on went for Eisenhower. But the reason for that, on that account, was in connection with the depletion

Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and completely isolated from the public. F: Everything has got to be filtered through somebody. M: That's right. Eisenhower was in that position. Roosevelt was in that position. Nixon is now in that position, But Kennedy and Johnson, as far as I could ever

Oral history transcript, W. Evans Buchanan, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of Eisenhower? B: It was . a: Did you have any direct connection with John F . Kennedy? � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral

Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Adams--I--16 A: I didn't know what to say with that. As I started to say before the press photographers, I had sung for Eisenhower and for Kennedy, and I never was asked by Johnson. they said, "Well, he didn't attend

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 2 (II), 2/28/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: No--you're talking about when President Eisenhower sent troops? G: Yes. V: I don't know if it did. Luster off in what way? Do you mean that--? G: Well, it looked like this transformation would not be as smooth as perhaps they had originally thought. V

Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

groups during President Eisenhower's Administration. I served as president of Frontiers of Science Foundation of Oklahoma. And so all of this was in a framework where quite independent of Senator Kerr's activities, I was performing a function

Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

use he came from the Hi 11. it's Senator Knowland. He sa i d, "We 11 , He has decided that we're giving too much to the U.N." He said, "I've talked to him; Dulles has talked to him; Eisenhower has talked to him." So I said, "Well, Fran, what

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

Board. I found that Eisenhower used to have meetings with the four men who headed these four organizations. the impression that it was a rather sometime thing. And I also got It struck me that both to give the President the four-ply coordination

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

nominees. There shouldn't be any hocus pocus about putting Eisenhower on there as the Democratic nominee and putting them on as some kind of independents or something. M: Did Mr. Johnson's activity in the Leland Olds case as he was reappointed

Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

before making that decision?" (Laughter) So Tom Mattingly, who was one of Eisenhower's physicians, and I went to Nicaragua. They picked us up--picked me up; Mattingly, I think, was in Washington at the time. But they picked me up the next morning

Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 5 (V), 3/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Eleanor Roosevelt than some of the other first ladies, like Mrs. Eisenhower and Mrs. Truman, who just kind [of] were in back. He always was pressing Mrs. Johnson to get into some thing that she would enjoy and take leadership in. Of course, she did select

Oral history transcript, George R. Davis, interview 1 (I), 2/13/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)

Eisenhower after his heart attack, and he was very sensitive about things like cholesterol, he never smoked again, he watched the fat in his diet. Did President Johnson ever give any indication that he was paying attention to a regimen of that sort

Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the Eisenhower Administration when the Republicans had charge of the Congress during the 83rd, I believe. I don't recall my first personal contact with the PreSident, that is, person to person conversations with him, unless it was when he was going into North

Oral history transcript, Lawrence Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 Kennedy or President Eisenhower

Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

certainly since the Eisenhower Administration- -it was reaffirmed by President Kennedy- -that the ambassador speaks for the President in a foreign country, that all of the other members of the country team, our people, the C. 1. A. people, the U. S. 1. S

Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Thei s -- I -- 11 were not happy about some of the leftover commitments from the QuemoyMatsu days, the Eisenhower years. It was one of those things that has continued up until--and still

Oral history transcript, W. Marvin Watson, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. It was there that Governor Shivers, having bolted the Democratic Party in behalf of President Eisenhower in 1952, some of us felt that that same posture would be taken in 1956. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, extend to the White House? W: Hhy, yes, of course it was of concern. F: Did you have any opportunity to observe Mr. Eisenhower's hand in the committee or not? Or did he seem to leave it alone? W: As far as I know, he left it alone. F: They had

Oral history transcript, Horace D. Godfrey, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that over a year we looked at the Truman Library and Eisenhower Library and other libraries--tried to-F: Was Wayne Grover often with you on this? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was an army officer, and although I was born in Texas, we lived all over the world. M: Like Eisenhower's birthplace was Texas. H: Yes, that's right. And the President didn't know my grandfather. My grandfather had been chief justice of the Criminal Court

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

the Landrum-Griffin Act under my immediate responsibility. It had been passed by the Congress in late 1959, and the Eisenhower Administration had really dragged its feet in implementing it because it was a sen- sitive matter. So it came really to us to put

Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

seldom vote Democratic, in our precinct convention we carried it for Lyndon Johnson over Allan Shivers. Shivers, of course, had been an active Eisenhower supporter, beginning in 1952 and 1956. M: You must have been involved in that Shivers-Johnson fight

Oral history transcript, John M. Leddy, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Walt Rostow was to this, but I have the feeling that he was not one of the--didn't this idea get started in the late Eisenhower period? M: Yes, apparently-- L: Jerry Smith. M: Jerry Smith was very closely connected with it. L: And Bob Schaetzel

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 4 (IV), 7/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

with the Congress are in some way a favorable reflection on the capacity of Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn in the Eisenhower years. So I think that even though the presidency was held by the other party, that both of them were steadfast in working with the President

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Mayborn, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the contact. We had some other people. there. I think Charlie Woodson from Brownwood was Charlie and I were always good Democrats together, [for] almost everything, including during the Eisenhower race. Even though I had served under Eisenhower, we worked

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in September 1963. I well remember when President Kennedy completed his briefing with former President Eisenhower before he took over the White House, President Eisenhower concentrated on the Laos crisis and never mentioned Vietnam when he reviewed the various

Oral history transcript, Marshall McNeil, interview 1 (I), 6/11/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

then, and he and Sam [Rayburn] were the government. It's true that Eisenhower got some of the things he wanted by means of the veto, but what he got, he got because Lyndon and Sam let him have it. G: Can you recall, for example, his role in the Big Inch

Oral history transcript, Marie Wilson, interview 1 (I), 12/7/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

at Littauer in the Bureau of the Budget. My class had mostly gone to Washington. I worked for three years in the Budget Bureau through the transition, Truman to Eisenhower. M: That was about 1951 to 1954? W: That's 1951 to 1954. I got my early

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, there was one guy down there named Bob Hill who was the ambassador to Mexico. Now Bob Hill was the ambassador because Lyndon Johnson put him there! F: He was Eisenhower's appointee, wasn't he? C: Yes, but he was a congressional liaison man to the Hill. He

Oral history transcript, Thomas C. Mann, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

accurate. The President sets the policy. They set them in different degrees. President Johnson is a man--President Truman likewise was a man--who personally followed the pros and the cons and made a lot of the decisions. General Eisenhower, with a different

Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was wondering what he had that maybe some of the others lacked since Eisenhower was not noted for his own outgoing-- K: I think Hagerty was an extremely good organizer and manager. That job does take a lot of organization and management, and people who